Miraaking14

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Hello, Miraaking14! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. You may benefit from following some of the links below, which will help you get the most out of Wikipedia. If you have any questions you can ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or by typing four tildes "~~~~"; this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you are already excited about Wikipedia, you might want to consider being "adopted" by a more experienced editor or joining a WikiProject to collaborate with others in creating and improving articles of your interest. Click here for a directory of all the WikiProjects. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field when making edits to pages. Happy editing! Dan Koehl (talk) 06:40, 21 September 2018 (UTC) Getting Started Contributing to Wikipedia The five pillars of Wikipedia • Tutorial • Your first article How to: edit a page • upload an image Getting Help Frequently Asked Questions Directories and indexes Where to: ask questions • make requests Tip of the day Request administrator attention Policies and Guidelines Neutral point of view • Reliable sources Verifiability • Citing sources • No original research What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons Simplified Manual of Style • Three-revert rule Copyrights • Non-free content • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism • Sock puppetry Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The Community Community Portal • Adopt-a-user program Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • Resolving disputes Build consensus • Village pump IRC channels • Mailing lists Discover what's going on in the Wikimedia community (The Signpost) Things to do Be bold in editing • Help develop an article Maintenance • Peer review • Requested articles Join a WikiProject • Translating articles Cleaning up: General • Spam • Vandalism Miscellaneous Categories • Disambiguity • Stubs User pages • Talk pages Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

How to find articles that may have been vandalized

Hello Miraaking14, I noticed your question about the process of defending vandalism, and how to find articles that may have been vandalized. You can read more about "classical manual methods" on How to spot vandalism , which are based on checking the latest edits with certain configurations, but there's at least two programs (and probably more that I didn't try) which are very helpful, Huggle and STiki. Both programmes are "fed" with articles through various methods, of which the "robot" User:ClueBot_NG, an anti-vandal bot that tries to detect and revert vandalism quickly and automatically, may serve as one example, but there's more of them. Reading some more about vandalism may help you get a clearer picture. The report page Administrator intervention against vandalism serve as a junction where users report vandals, so those destructive users can be dealt with by admins, in reality, in most cases the vandals are blocked, after appropriate warnings. Dan Koehl (talk) 06:58, 21 September 2018 (UTC)